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...station WBZ declined to join the 80-station rebroadcast* on the ground that this radio dramatization of Selden Menefee's book Assignments: U.S.A. (a critical survey of wartime America) was more inclined to promote intolerance than tolerance. It was certainly bad advertising for Boston. Said the script: "Nearly every Bostonian you speak to-those who will open up at all-is conscious that something is radically wrong behind the scenes. Isolationism, antiSemitism, pro-appeasement are more rampant in Boston than in any city in the land. . . . The Irish are an absolute majority and run the city from...
...script went on to consider such matters as "white supremacy" in the South, factory morale, manpower shortages, inflation, political "fiddling." Radio dramatization sharpened a book which was itself not very interesting. NBC, which usually avoids a controversial subject had been persuaded by the press & public opinion to rebroadcast a program not originally considered worthy of radio's customary ballyhoo...
...realistically was it presented by Orson Welles, that citizens actually called their police stations and offered to help save the country from the invading Martians. A psychological interpretation of the panic was written by Professor George W. Cantril of Princeton entitled "The Invasion From Mars," containing the original script, and may be obtained at Widener Library...
...subject, the makers of the film have not included any of the dynamite implicit in a truly forthright treatment of the subject. There is no mention of segregation, of friction between Negro soldiers and white soldiers and civilians. But Carlton Moss, a Negro who wrote the film's script, was overall adviser for the production and acted in it, assured white friends who were discouraged by its mildness that the picture would mean more to Negroes than most white men could imagine...
...faces and figures of a number of models under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is also a vehicle for Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and the average moviegoer has seen the same thing two or three times before. No particular effort was expended in the writing of the script, and the picture vibrates rapidly between the ancient and the inane...